Science Quotes

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
Barbara Tuchman
H. a. kramers - in the world of human thought generally, and in...
Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely for science is but one.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
STRATEGY is; A style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring FUTURE SUCCESS.
Pete Johnson
Pierre charron - the true science and study of man is man....
Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.
Richard Feynman
The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space.
Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowlege: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Charles Darwin
Before a war, military science seems a real science, like astronomy. After a war it seems more like astrology.
Dame Rebecca West
A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.
Max Gluckman
Engineering is the professional art of applying science to the optimum conversion of natural resources to the benefit of man.
Ralph J. Smith
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - The apathy of human beings.
Hellen Kelle
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest sceintists are always artists as well.
Albert Einstein
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel Kant
It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
William E. Channing
I think somebody should come up with a way to breed a very large shrimp. That way, you could ride him, then after you camped at night, you could eat him. How about it, science.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
Peter Borden
A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the destribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.
G. H. Hardy
Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth.
T. J. Hoover and J. C. L. Fish, 1941
Why does this magnificent applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us little happiness The simple answer runs because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.
Albert Einstein
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
Carl Sagan
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Unknown
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
Sir Francis Bacon
Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.
Albert Einstein
Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - Except when they are different.
Nancy Banks - Smith
Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit of chemistry... If mathematical analysis should ever had prominent place in chemistry - An aberration, which is happily almost impossible - It would be a rapid and widespread degeneration of that science.
Auguste Comte, Philosophie Positive (1830)
In our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.
Mark Twain
In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not the man to whom the idea first occurs.
Sir Francis Darwin, Eugenics Review, April 1914
Science is but the statement of truth found out.
Coley
Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
Arthur C. Clarke